What Is the one thing you’ve always wanted? What extents would you go to in order to obtain it? How far are you going to let your ambitions take you. In Williams Shakespeare's play Macbeth, unchecked ambition is a reoccurring theme that causes much turmoil. Characters like Macbeth and Lady Macbeth often have to make decisions based on morals and their ambition for power. We will see how Macbeth's ambitions will lead to murders, suicide, and guilt.
In this story, Macbeth’s ambitions lead him to take someone's life to benefit himself. In the story Lady Macbeth says, “The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/Under my battlements. Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full(1.5.28-35)” In this quote, Lady Macbeth is praying to the spirits to take away her womanhood and make her more like a man. She want it to be easier to kill Duncan and gain power. In these lines, she is clearly representing her will to risk and do anything just so that she can have more power, which later leads to her and Macbeth to killing King Duncan and taking over his throne. But with killing, comes guilt. That is why if you let your ambitions take you to far, you …show more content…
Lady Macbeth says in the book after commiting Duncans murder, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A/ soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows/ it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet/ who would have thought the old man to have had so/ much blood in him(5.1.25-30).” She is remembering what it was like killing Duncan. She feels guilty for killing Duncan. While sleep walking, she is trying to “wash his blood from her hand” thinking that it will not make her feel so guilty. She is clearly broken down by it and does not know what to do. This extreme guilt will soon lead her to extreme
In this story, Macbeth’s ambitions lead him to take someone's life to benefit himself. In the story Lady Macbeth says, “The raven himself is hoarse/That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan/Under my battlements. Come, you spirits/That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full(1.5.28-35)” In this quote, Lady Macbeth is praying to the spirits to take away her womanhood and make her more like a man. She want it to be easier to kill Duncan and gain power. In these lines, she is clearly representing her will to risk and do anything just so that she can have more power, which later leads to her and Macbeth to killing King Duncan and taking over his throne. But with killing, comes guilt. That is why if you let your ambitions take you to far, you …show more content…
Lady Macbeth says in the book after commiting Duncans murder, “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!—One, two. Why, then, ’tis time to do ’t. Hell is murky!—Fie, my lord, fie! A/ soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows/ it, when none can call our power to account?—Yet/ who would have thought the old man to have had so/ much blood in him(5.1.25-30).” She is remembering what it was like killing Duncan. She feels guilty for killing Duncan. While sleep walking, she is trying to “wash his blood from her hand” thinking that it will not make her feel so guilty. She is clearly broken down by it and does not know what to do. This extreme guilt will soon lead her to extreme